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So I picked up a couple of 1/76 buildings the other day, and they seem to fit well, can anyone confirm if they're the right scale? I don't want to go out and build a French town in 1/76 and find out they're too big when you have loads together.

Flames of War is 1/100 scale.

Depends how perfectionists someone is. As FoW is quite "bulky" a little bigger like 1/87 fits well.
Not sure for 1/76.

1/76 would put you closer to the 20mm side of things.

http://www.paperterrain.com/size.html
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/526069.page

Buildings do vary in size a fair bit which is a saving grace, that 1:76 house, could be a decent 'large' town house. will also work nicely if you have raised roads, also because the infantry are both heroic and on bases it can work.

May look a bit odd for sheds and shacks, but for houses etc, well keep in mind the model of one house isn't really one house (e.g. a pistol will fire a bit further than the length of a house) so its a bit abstract anyway.

As an example, the 'linka' buildings - 1:76 scale with some BF models





They are a bit on the large side, but perfectly usable.

Look at the price, get one or two and try them, make stuff around them fit the scale and it should work nicely

I have an Airfix 1:76 building which looks about right for FoW. Personally I prefer the smaller 1:100 ones you can get from the likes of 4Ground etc. I certainly wouldn't mix the two scales on the same board, but you could probably get away with one or two buildings.